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Dolphins QB Jay Cutler on retirement: “I always missed the game”

Jay Cutler was happy in retirement, but still had the itch to play. (Allen Eyestone/The Post)

PHILADELPHIA—One of the main takeaways from Jay Cutler’s initial press conference with the Dolphins was how content he was with the retired life, but he wasn’t totally comfortable leaving his football career behind.

That was evident in part by him pursuing a broadcasting opportunity with Fox, and he said it nagged at him intermittently during his time off after the Bears released him in March.

“I always missed it,” he said. “I’ve always said that there were going to be days I missed it and days I was content with my decision. There was never a week that went by that I didn’t think about playing football: ‘Did I make the right decision? Did I not make the right decision?’ That’s kind of life. There’s always situations that come up that you’re not sure which direction to go. You just gotta pick one and roll with it. I was just lucky enough that something like this happened for me.”

It appeared from the outside as though Cutler hadn’t gotten any offers prior to Miami needing a replacement for Ryan Tannehill, though he declined to answer whether that was true or whether he wouldn’t wanted to come into this type of situation under any coach besides Adam Gase.

He did say, though, that his familiarity with Gase and the quality of Miami’s skill players were good selling points when the Dolphins recruited him.

“It was huge,” Cutler said. “To come back with Adam, the roster is really talented, I know the system, kind of just plug and play, that was kind of everything for me.”